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The Comarca de Kuna Yala is a narrow 226km strip of the Caribbean coast of Panama that includes the Archipelago de San Blas. The area consists of around 400 islands and are home to the Kuna who run San Blas as a comarca - an autonomous region with minimal interference from the Panamanian government on the mainland. They have their own system of governance philosophies and decision-making whilst maintaining their own economic systems language customs and cultures. Originally from Colombia they fled to the islands when the Spanish first arrived in the 16th Century. In this particular shot we see rich blue skies with sporadic sprays of fluffy clouds and paradise like turquoise clear waters. The sand is soft clean and white and the whole of the island is covered in cocoteros or coconut palmes of all different shapes and sizes. In the middle of shot almost attached to the island sits a wooden pier or jetty. It sits on a collection of stilits just above th level of the calm Caribbean